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cellular_cosmogony 's review for:
Metro 2033
by Dmitry Glukhovsky
Rating: 3.25/5
Translated from the Russian to the Bulgarian by Vasil Velchev
CWs: below, may include spoilers
Metro 2033 is post-apocalyptic book, originally published as an interactive web novel back in 2002. The story is predominantly set in the Moscow metro system, where humanity has evacuated after a nuclear war has destroyed the surface world. It follows Artyom, a young man, who has lived in the metro for all his conscious life, as he sets on a journey in the metro.
This story is very hard to review, because on the one hand it mostly succeeds in being a unique surprisingly complex narrative, but on the other, it has some glaring flaws like its lack of any female characters save for a couple, who can only be described as cameos. There was also some clunky writing and info-dumping at the beginning of the story, but the quality only got better as the novel progressed. The two things that made the story for me were the borderline horror atmosphere of the setting and the interesting approach to writing Artyom as a protagonist. I liked how he was portrayed as a young man absorbing varying ideologies throughout the novel and let us see how he used them to form his own belief system by the end.
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CWs: horror elements (body horror, psychological horror), referenced child prostitution, cannibalism, religious cults, ne0-nazism
Translated from the Russian to the Bulgarian by Vasil Velchev
CWs: below, may include spoilers
Metro 2033 is post-apocalyptic book, originally published as an interactive web novel back in 2002. The story is predominantly set in the Moscow metro system, where humanity has evacuated after a nuclear war has destroyed the surface world. It follows Artyom, a young man, who has lived in the metro for all his conscious life, as he sets on a journey in the metro.
This story is very hard to review, because on the one hand it mostly succeeds in being a unique surprisingly complex narrative, but on the other, it has some glaring flaws like its lack of any female characters save for a couple, who can only be described as cameos. There was also some clunky writing and info-dumping at the beginning of the story, but the quality only got better as the novel progressed. The two things that made the story for me were the borderline horror atmosphere of the setting and the interesting approach to writing Artyom as a protagonist. I liked how he was portrayed as a young man absorbing varying ideologies throughout the novel and let us see how he used them to form his own belief system by the end.
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CWs: horror elements (body horror, psychological horror), referenced child prostitution, cannibalism, religious cults, ne0-nazism